Facebook's Lobbying Efforts In California Pay Off

In California, the Palo-Alto-based company has been quietly making more friends in the state capital, and just last month scored a major victory in persuading legislators to vote against a bill that would have made more user information private on social networking websites.

The Sacramento Bee says that Facebook’s victory with California Senate Bill 242 was evidence of the social network’s growing influence as it not only spent $102,000 on lobbying in the state, but also made its first contributions to political candidates.